hey everyone it's James from fun foods and I'm going to show you how to make these
everlasting gobstoppers yes these are real they are gobstoppers
they don't last forever but they are a lot of fun making and they taste great
so keep watching I'll show you step by step how to make these the first thing
you want to do is start off with a heavy bottomed pan and to that we want to add
one cup of sugar half a cup of water and 1/4 of a cup of light corn syrup now
just take this over to the stove and heat it up you just want to stir this
until all that sugar has dissolved
and when your liquid becomes clear you can stop stirring put in a candy
thermometer and we want to wait until it reaches about 305 degrees just to be
sure
make sure your cane thermometer is not touching the bottom but in the liquid so
while our liquid is over there heating up I got to prepare our mold and I got
this mold on Amazon I'll put a link in the description below in case you want
to get a hold of one it just has the right shape I'm looking for now the
first thing I want to do is spray it with some cooking spray not much because
it is a silicone mold and then I want to sprinkle a little bit of Confection
confectionery sugar across again you don't want to fill it up with confectionary
sugar you just want a little bit it's going to help it come out I'm going to
put my mold on a baking sheet like this just to make it easier when it reaches
305 degrees you can pull your candy thermometer out and turn off the heat
now we want to stir in our food coloring this is blue food coloring that's the first
one I'm going to use and we'll put a few drops in here stir that in
after that's mixed in really well next we can add our flavoring I'm using
raspberry for the blue and I'm going to add a little bit of this flavoring
because a little bit goes a long way mix that in now we'll you take this over
to our molds and fill it up so our liquid is done it reached the temperature I
wanted to get to and now we're going to do is pour it into our molds and I'll
just start somewhere near the middle and pour it in alright so after this has filled
up you just want to kind of work it around a little bit just to try to to
even it out some and when you're pretty happy with it you can just let it sit
out until it hardens up so I've let my candy harden up and I'm about to take it
out of the mold but what I forgot to do right after I poured the candy into the
mold was using offset spatula to wipe it across so that we'll have those clean
lines to make it easy for our candy come out of mold I will do that in future
batches because we have to make multiple batches of this with different colors
but for this one I'm still going to try to get things out of the molds if they
don't work I'll have to redo it but what I think we can do is kind of just go
along lines and break these and we kind of break them a bunch of different ways
and they seem to be doing okay so I'm going to do that and see if we can get
them out cleanly they seem to work pretty good at just doing that and then
we can take these after you break them up we have to clean them up a bit so
what I'll do is I'll show you
so they'll have the extra little excess candy on them you just take a butter
knife and try to clean it up a bit and the reason we made extra is because
sometimes when you're trying to clean these up they will break so you just use
the other ones this one worked out kind of good put that there there you go and
just do this with all of them and then after that we'll make our next batch
with a different color different flavor and we'll let that harden up now when
you're all done breaking these up and getting them into little individual
pieces you just want to take this set this aside we'll come back to it later
right now I'm going to go ahead and make other batches the same set process I'm
gonna use different colors and different flavors that's the only difference so
we'll set this aside and come back to later and for the red cherry flavor pour
it all in here and this time I am going to take my offset spatula and just
smooth it along this will make it easier for them to come out when they're done hardening up
all in all I made five different batches each a different color in a
different flavor for instance red is cherry yellow is lemon green is mint
blue is raspberry and pink is watermelon well my last batch is done cooking and
what I'm going to do right now is I have this separate burner here and I'm going
to put it on that I want to keep it warm because we don't want it to firm up yet
so we have to kind of work quickly here so what would do is start with yellow
because I seem to have a lot of those and I'm just going to dip this in here
and
put a dab right on there and I'm going to take another color and put it just like
that and we're going to just kind of join
these together to make what we're looking for
all right so I messed up a bit when I had this on the burner
I had the burner on high I didn't realize it and it burned to this nice
tar that's not good so right now it has it's on a burner I made a whole another
batch and I put it on here and I don't have a burner turned on I'll only turn on
if I need it so to complete where we were just at is I'm gonna take here's
the one we've been working on you can kind of use whatever colors you want
just kind of spread them out try to get them opposite sides if you can well now
it's off to a taste test so I'm going to give this a try and see
how they taste all together almost like a fruit punch lots of flavor in there
well thanks everyone for watching I hope you enjoyed watching me make these
everlasting gobstoppers this was a lot of fun making these please share this with any of
your friends and family that might enjoy this I had a great time making this it
was a lot of hard work so just a warning if you want to make these have a whole
day set aside because it does take a lot of work but it was a lot of fun doing
this I hope you share this with somebody and I hope you check out some of the
other videos I have off to the side I think you may enjoy those as well and
until then I'll see you guys next week